John Wick

All four chapters, plus Ballerina and The Continental.

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Where to start with John Wick

Four numbered films that run consecutively, and two things around the edges that do not. The films are the story; the ordering question is only ever about where the spin-offs go, and the answer is not where their release dates suggest.

  1. 1
    John Wick (2014) John Wick

    A small revenge film with an unusually specific set of rules, and it explains all of them as it goes. Nothing before it.

  2. 2
    John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) John Wick: Chapter 2

    Where the world stops being background and becomes the plot, and where the series commits to the scale it keeps for the rest of it. It begins minutes after the first film ends.

  3. 3
    John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

    Picks up in the same hour that Chapter 2 finishes, so the three of them are close to one continuous story. By here you will know whether you want the fourth.

Then what? Chapter 4 follows directly and is the longest and best regarded of them. The two spin-offs are the ones people get wrong: Ballerina is set inside Chapter 3, between two scenes of it, and The Continental is a prequel set in 1975 with an entirely different cast. Both are better after the films than before, and neither is required.

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Films

  • John Wick 2014
  • John Wick: Chapter 2 2017
  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum 2019
  • John Wick: Chapter 4 2023
  • From the World of John Wick: Ballerina 2025

Television

  • The Continental: From the World of John Wick 2023, 1 season, 3 episodes

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